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...Bickford (NU) 30:20; 2. R. Eichner (H) 30:40; 3. tie-- J. Murphy (H), T. McNulty (H) 31:40; 5. tie -N. Scidmore (H), B. Logan (H) 31:41; 7. T. Willis (NU) 32:24; 8. B. Devlon (NU) 32:25; 9. J. Doane (NU) 32:29; 10. P. Bickford...
Reid Eichner, returning from a year off, led the effort for the thinclads, finishing just 20 seconds behind the Huskies' multi All-American Bruce Bickford in a time of 30:40. The four other Harvard scorers finished in a clump. McNulty and John Murphy tied for third at 31:40, while Noel Scidmore and newcomer Buck Logan hit the tape together one second later...
...race started out with a little bit of cat and mouse. Neither team was willing to make a serious move before testing out the turf. The field was still closely bunched at the one-mile point before Bickford, McNulty, Logan, Eichner and Murphy picked up the pace and moved away from the rest of the pack...
...three-mile marker, the four Crimson jerseys had been joined by a fifth--Scidmore. Bickford, the lone Northeastern runner at the front of the field, spurted into first; and only Eichner tried to catch him. With a meet victory in the bag, the rest of the Harvard contingent regrouped, crossing the finish line together...
...given in late 1954, was different. Baker loved its ripe pomposities, its jostling overweeners, the interplay and foolishness of it all. Pat Furgurson of the Sun recalls joking with Baker in the Senate gallery: "Baker would look down and say, 'Look, there's Ken Keating, wearing Charles Bickford's old hair.'" Charles McDowell of the Richmond Times-Dispatch recalls Baker's work: "He'd start out writing about some Senator, and pretty soon it would turn into a piece of architecture. He'd set scenes and roll around in his story like an essayist...